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The Squid and the Whale — Brooklynian

The Squid and the Whale

dailyheights
dailyheights
edited November -1 in Park Slope
The family drama set in 1980s Park Slope. Who's seen it?

Here's a good trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thesquidandthewhale.html

Also good is the New York Times review, which starts out like this:

"One of the ruling assumptions of American popular culture - or at least of American independent movies - is that everyone's adolescence is uniquely miserable. Once we're safely afloat in adulthood, though, we can begin to recognize the universality of our earlier experiences, and we can be grateful when, amid all the prurience and sentimentality that attend representations of adolescence, someone manages to get it right."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/07/style/flik08.php

Comments

  • jack
    jack
    I put $20 on the squid. What can a whale do? Flap it's flipper and blow wind through it's hole. A squid is a multi-tentacled killing machine and has a beak!
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    SquidWhale.jpgChristian Lorentzen sent us a link to his take on Noah Baumbach's The Squid and The Whale:

    "People over age 50 are signally absent from Park Slope, Brooklyn. It’s a neighborhood where members of the 'creative class' move during their breeding years to mate, spawn, and keep housepets. The elegant brownstones are spacious and just barely affordable, grocery stores and veterinary clinics abound, the streets remain fairly safe, and a majestic park sits atop the hill. What better place to fall in love and raise a family?"

    "But here comes the paradox. No zone – besides perhaps a college dormitory – could be more hostile to monogamy... The density of the Slope’s educated, attractive, liberal-minded population translates... into a practically limitless array of analogous sexual options within walking distance. The lonesomeness of the uncoupled, or the isolation of marital strife, can be assuaged without difficulty. Someone else will always be thirsty too, and chances are he or she is pretty good-looking, attended a respected college, holds a really interesting job, has an intriguing ethnic background, and there’s always the thrill of seeing the inside of someone else’s apartment..." Read more...
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: Locations?

    Anyone spot any familiar locations in the Squid & the Whale?

    I'm pretty sure the Chinese restaurant is the Schezhuan place at 7th & Garfield -- I recognized the phamacy across the street.
  • apple pants
    apple pants
    This film had a great soundtrack. I keep meaning to rent it.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    Seriously, this is ridiculous that you keep digging up 3 year old threads!
  • apple pants
    apple pants
    Huh, I thought it was kind of neat. The archives here are great. I forgot all about this film. My wife and I have a date and I am downloading the movie right now. We are going to re-watch it after dinner.
  • eggcream
    eggcream
    I hate to start to read something to see that it's 3 years old.
  • apple pants
    apple pants
    I bet a dozen people will rent this film this week because of my interest in the archives. I plan to download the soundtrack. Great guitar pop music and drones as I recall.
  • vidro3
    vidro3
    apple pants wrote: Huh, I thought it was kind of neat. The archives here are great. I forgot all about this film. My wife and I have a date and I am downloading the movie right now. We are going to re-watch it after dinner.
    stop it
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    vidro3 wrote: [quote=apple pants]Huh, I thought it was kind of neat. The archives here are great. I forgot all about this film. My wife and I have a date and I am downloading the movie right now. We are going to re-watch it after dinner.
    stop it

    There goes the PS bullying in full force. Go on, Newbie! Drag out any 'ole thread ya like. :wink:
  • vidro3
    vidro3
    Whatchuwant wrote: [quote=vidro3][quote=apple pants]Huh, I thought it was kind of neat. The archives here are great. I forgot all about this film. My wife and I have a date and I am downloading the movie right now. We are going to re-watch it after dinner.
    stop it

    There goes the PS bullying in full force. Go on, Newbie! Drag out any 'ole thread ya like. :wink:

    if you don't watch out i will totally mess up your shins with my stroller
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    i don't think it is bullying at all, I don't know of any board that is keen on having 3 year old threads resurrected!
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=Mamacita]Seriously stop doing that, it drives us crazy.

    Ps if you are bored, go to the lounge there's plenty of time-wasting stuff there
    Apple pants did the right thing. It's good to put some context to these discussions, rather than having 5 different threads about the same restaurant. I don't think it's sucha bad thing for an old thread to get bumped up, as long as it's for a reason, rather than some n00b randomly bumping old threads.

    Ahem- you were saying, LTS?

    (Full disclosure:
    The above is Mod against Mod, FWIW.)
  • MOD
    MOD
    LongTimeSloper wrote: i don't think it is bullying at all, I don't know of any board that is keen on having 3 year old threads resurrected!
    I'm with LTS, but this has nothing to do with rules. Sooo... I'm moving on. Closing this one up.
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